I have not done the survey in a while but I have found a lot of the older networking applications to be sorely lacking. The WATTCP based FTP clients that I looked at did not support passive mode connections and had horrible user interfaces. NCSA Telnet does not run on 8088 class machines; it's FTP server assumes a default port and does not understand PORT or PASSIVE FTP commands. A lot of the applications are inconsistent in their support of DNS and DHCP.
Retrofitting existing applications to use a new TCP stack is like putting a supercharger on a lawn mower engine. Somebody still has to go in and fix the lawn mower .... We can argue the merits of the existing applications, but I'd rather talk about the road map. The road map said "protected mode networking" among other things. I'm trying to figure out what that means, and more importantly, suggest that just changing the networking library isn't going to help. We need more focus on networking in general. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
